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> This is what happens when free market capitalism is your economic system. And here's what happens when it isn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_
by nullc 3y ago
> This is what happens when free market capitalism is your economic system.
And here's what happens when it isn't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resistance/en/document/chronology-mass-killings-during-chinese-cultural-revolution-1966-1976.html https://www.sciencespo.fr/mass-violence-war-massacre-resista...
I know which one I prefer.
- jampekka 3y agoNot sure where I'd take my chances. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congo_Free_State https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_(disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company_(disambigua...
- wheelerof4te 3y agoEast India Company is surely one of the biggest plagues ever on mankind. As the name says, it was a private megacorporation, with it's own navy and private army. Nation states kill for the ideals. Private companies that have the power of a state kill, enslave and pillage only for more profit.